Yao, J;
Zhou, L;
Wu, T;
Jin, M;
Pan, C;
Elkashlan, M;
Wong, KK;
(2025)
Exploring Fairness for FAS-assisted Communication Systems: from NOMA to OMA.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
p. 1.
10.1109/TWC.2025.3531056.
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Abstract
This paper addresses the fairness issue within fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal multiple access (OMA) systems, where a single fixed-antenna base station (BS) transmits superposition-coded signals to two users, each with a single fluid antenna. We define fairness through the minimization of the maximum outage probability for the two users, under total resource constraints for both FAS-assisted NOMA and OMA systems. Specifically, in the FAS-assisted NOMA systems, we study both a special case and the general case, deriving a closed-form solution for the former and applying a bisection search method to find the optimal solution for the latter. Moreover, for the general case, we derive a locally optimal closed-form solution to achieve fairness. In the FAS-assisted OMA systems, to deal with the non-convex optimization problem with coupling of the variables in the objective function, we employ an approximation strategy to facilitate a successive convex approximation (SCA)-based algorithm, achieving locally optimal solutions for both cases. Besides, we address a more general scenario involving interference and channel estimation overheads, deriving exact users' outage probabilities and employing a combination of bisection, one-dimensional (1D) search, and SCA algorithms to efficiently and effectively solve max-min optimization problems in both NOMA and OMA systems, significantly enhancing system fairness and computational efficiency. Our numerical results demonstrate that the proposed schemes significantly enhance outage performance over conventional OMA and NOMA benchmarks, even in the presence of interference, confirming their effectiveness in realistic scenarios. The performance of our closed-form and SCA algorithm-based solutions in FAS-assisted NOMA and OMA systems closely approaches that of the optimal solutions, further validated by the effective approximation of users' outage probabilities in simulations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring Fairness for FAS-assisted Communication Systems: from NOMA to OMA |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TWC.2025.3531056 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2025.3531056 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | NOMA, Probability, Power system reliability, Antennas, Resource management, Fluids, Quality of service, Optimization, Closed-form solutions, Approximation algorithms |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204638 |
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